Best Dorothy L. Sayers Quotations
- She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not… All
- But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose… Arise
- Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober. Drunk
- However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal… Almost Equal
- Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to… Bones
- Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally. Accidentally
- I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you… Across
- If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle Anybody
- It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid. Cough
- Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin,… Able
- In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference… Careers
- What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you… Answer
- We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose… Categories
- The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The… All
- Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to… Behind
- Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal. Blame
- He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity. Absurdity
- The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false… All
- If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social… Beauty
- A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity. Equally
- Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey. Afraid
- There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go… Amiable
- Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it. Bed
- He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the… Befitting
- For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We… All
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